Cooperative Agreement 05ERAG0040

This $147,142.30 federal Project Grant award was made by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (CFDA 15.814). The primary objective of the award is to support two priorities: Purchase a new benchtop X-ray diffraction (XRD) device to collect analytical data on potential critical mineral resources from the West Virginia Geological Survey's (WVGES) legacy geological sample collection. This new XRD instrument will enhance WVGES's...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to Lehigh University. The project aims to characterize rare earth elements and elements of interest in coal combustion residual wastewater and solid wastes, as well as demonstrate recovery technologies to enable beneficial use of these materials. As part of this project, Lehigh University has issued a $554,513...

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This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA 15.073) provides $659,891 to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to conduct a geochemical reconnaissance of potential Mo-W deposits in the southwestern United States. The key deliverables include: A geochemical database and datasets from sampling prospective deposits in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to assess critical mineral potential,...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation (CFDA 15.255) program to Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU). The project aims to develop cost-effective, environmentally friendly biotechnology processes to extract rare earth elements (REEs) from coal mining waste (CMW) streams. Key objectives include: 1) enriching...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $643,308.48 Cooperative Agreement under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA 15.073) to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources (DCNR) Fiscal Management Division. The 3-year project will conduct a geochemical reconnaissance survey of Devonian shales across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland to assess the economic potential for critical minerals including vanadium, molybdenum, cobalt, nickel, rhenium,...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the "Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation" CFDA program. The objective is to develop and verify a novel phytomining-based process that enables simultaneous rare earth element (REE) recovery and solid waste reclamation from coal mine...

The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $660,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA 15.073) to the University of Illinois. The purpose of the project is for the Illinois State Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Iowa, Indiana, and Kentucky State Geological Surveys, to collect new geochemical data on critical mineral concentrations in Devonian black shales across the Illinois Basin. The data will help evaluate ore mineralizing...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded $362,497 to West Virginia University Research Corporation under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) for a cooperative agreement titled "Advanced Processing of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals from Acid Mine Drainage Feedstocks." The award, made in January 2022, will support research to develop processes for extracting rare earth elements and critical minerals from acid...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $677,554 Project Grant to The Washington University Office of Sponsored Research Services Division under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The grant supports research and development of a novel supercritical fluid extraction and enrichment process to directly recover rare earth elements from solid coal-based resources. The project will be conducted at The Washington University's...